Baymen: The Pirate Lumberjacks

The Baymen were a loose band of former pirates settled as rugged frontiersmen in the inhospitable Yucatan Peninsula. They earned their dough-boys by the cutting of wood: actually a legume, called Logwood, which was used in the production of expensive dyes. This is how they operated, lived, ate, fought and suffered, all so that the European bigwigs could have their fancy clothes. Join our discord:   / discord   Hand over them doubloons:   / goldandgunpowder   Fork it over: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Wille... Sources: Two Voyages to Campechy - William Dampier The Buccaneer's Realm - Benerson Little Under the Black Flag - David Cordingly Wafer's New Voyage - Lionel Wafer 0:00 Introduction 1:09 Logwood 3:30 How the Baymen Lived 7:10 How the Baymen Hunted 8:47 A Bayman Economy 10:19 The Yucatan Nature 13:57 Piracy and Neighbors 18:02 Outro #pirates #history #belize